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Adverse effects of ultra-loose monetary policies on investment, growth and income distribution
Hoffmann, Andreas; Schnabl, Gunther - 2016
The paper analyses adverse investment, growth and distributional effects of ultra-loose monetary policies based on the monetary overinvestment theories of Hayek and Mises. We argue that ultra-loose monetary policies create incentives to substitute real investment by financial investment. When...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428355
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Is there a nonlinear relationship between economic growth and inequality? : theory and lessons from ASEAN, People Republic of China and India
Gangopadhyay, Partha; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2015
In view of rising inequality in fast growing Asian developing countries, it is important to study the relationship between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can bear a complex and non-linear relationship if policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531112
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All about the giants : probing the influences on growth and income inequality at the end of the 20th century
Berry, R. Albert; Serieux, John - 2003
persons for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000, and world poverty rates for the same years. It also presents the results of a … growth and changes in global income inequality and poverty. The authors find that rapid growth in China (despite a downward … inequality. The impact of these twocountries is similarly critical with respect to global poverty reduction. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514125
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Inequality, well-being and institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean
Oberoi, Jaideep; Ahsan, Syed - 2003
This paper focuses on the role of institutions in the fight against poverty and inequality. Our view of institutions …-income poverty à la capability approach of Amartya Sen) allows a rich discussion of policy interventions. While both orientations as … to the concepts of poverty, inequality and institutions are expounded on a priori reasoning, empirical analysis with LAC …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514135
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Can there be a wave-like association between economic growth and inequality? : theory and lessons for East Asia from the Middle East
Gangopadhyay, Partha; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2012
ominous messages for using equitable growth in fighting poverty. Rapid growing developing economies need to adopt appropriate … crucial to ensure more equity and social stability. -- growth ; inequality ; poverty ; East Asia and the Middle East …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009630652
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Monetary policies of large industrialised countries, emerging market credit cycles and feedback effects
Andreas, Hoffmann; Schnabl, Gunther - 2014
This paper explores the link between monetary policies of large industrial countries and international credit cycles. Based on an overinvestment framework, we show that in the prevailing asymmetric world monetary system, monetary policies of large centre countries can fuel credit booms in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337620
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Investors' trading behaviour and stock market volatility during crisis periods : a dual long-memory model for the Korean stock exchange
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Karanasos, Menelaos; Yfanti, … - 2019
This study examines the impact of investors' buy and sell trades on Korean stock market volatility across two crisis events, the Asian crisis of 1997 and the 2008 global financial crash. We investigate the trading behaviour of domestic vs. foreign and institutional vs. individual investors. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138660
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Direct distribution of rents and the resource curse in Iran : a micro-econometric analysis
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Habibpour, Mohammad - 2014
tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361509
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Status seeking behavior of the poor : a study on India
Marjit, Sugata; Santra, Sattwik; Hati, Koushik Kumar - 2018
This paper is the first attempt towards directly testing the existence of status seeking behavior of the poor for a developing economy, India, with the help of a large dataset. The paper empirically validates status consciousness among the relatively poor for both rural and urban areas across...
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The effect of international sanctions on the size of the middle class in Iran
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Habibi, Nader - 2024
This study examines the impact of international economic sanctions, imposed on Iran due to its nuclear program, on the development of the middle class. Specifically, it investigates how the middle class in Iran would have developed in the absence of these sanctions post-2012. To address this...
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